Vatican
City, 31 May 2012
(VIS) - Today the Holy Father nominated:
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Msgr. Fausto Ramon Mejia Vallejo as bishop of San Francisco de
Macoris (area 3,682, population 753,000, Catholics 599,000, priests
60, religious 72, permanent deacons 92), Dominican Republic. The
bishop-elect was born in Bejucal, Dominican Republic and was ordained
a priest in 1972. He has served as rector of the Santo Cura de Ars
Minor Seminary in La Vega, as spiritual director and catechesis
instructor for permanent deacons, and as professor in the theology
department as well as rector of the Santo Tomas de Aquino Pontifical
Seminary. Currently he is the rector of the Cibao Catholic
Technological University (UCATECI) in Santo Domingo. He succeeds
Bishop Jesus Maria de Jesus Moya, whose resignation from the pastoral
care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having
reached the age limit.
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Bishop Benedetto Tuzia as bishop of the diocese of Orvieto-Todi (area
1,310, population 93,500, Catholics 90,650, priests 132, religious
295, permanent deacons 22), Italy. He was previously Auxiliary Bishop
of Rome, Italy.
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